By taking a cultural studies approach to the sex industry, the article locates commercial sex and its actors within the wider social, cultural and political landscape, reflecting how wider trends regarding the mobilisation and resistance of marginalised groups are apparent within the most unlikely ...
Men who have sex with men are an important yet marginalised population for HIV prevention in Africa. We conducted a two-phase study (individual qualitative interviews and a survey) of men who have sex with men, aged 18–34 years of age and living in Kisumu, Kenya. Approximately half (27...
Who we are The World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) is the global community and verifier of enterprises that fully practise Fair Trade. We are an association of visionary Small and Medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that believes that a new economy is possible: together, we stand as a collective...
In the UK, the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector play a vital role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people who are marginalised or experiencing multiple complex needs. However, only a small number of studies have focused on the impact that...
Within this vulnerable population there are a number of sub-groups who are even further marginalised, and for whom there are significant barriers both at point of contact with services and with accessing appropriate follow up services. These include the homeless, the ever-increasing cohort of ...
Leading the charge for representation in meditation apps is Shine, created by Marah Lidey and Naomi Hirabayashi, a Black woman and a half-Japanese woman, who wanted to centre the mental health of marginalised groups they felt were "otherized" in mainstream wellness. The pair met as coworkers ...
They suggest it is these agendas, which are enabling policyholders and big business to cash in at the expense of those most commonly targeted, namely the most disadvantaged and marginalised members of society who find it difficult to thrive in a neo‐liberalist environment. Chapter 2 carries the...
The UN agency said its goal is to cut national suicide rates by 10 percent by 2020. A major challenge, it said, is that suicide victims are often from marginalised groups of the population, many of them poor and vulnerable. However, "suicides are preventable," Chan said. © 2014 AFP...
groups, while barely surviving their precarious employment. This is why Rottenberg closes her book by calling for the return to issues of inclusive social justice, invoking Judith Butler’s concept of ‘precarity’ as a unifying factor for attending to the most marginalised of women. In this way...
It is to celebrate a culture that has evolved and been inspired by more than sheer talent, psychic exploration and a good helping of decadence and hedonism, it is also those beautiful, intimate days, times we have spent with our friends and lovers that are special in ways it is hard to ...